This long Valentine's Day weekend was dedicated to two forces that make the world go round, Love & Basketball. Lynn and I don't make a big deal of Valentine's Day, love is a year/lifelong project afterall, but we did go see "Wuthering Heights" , apparently Warner Brothers insists that you use the quotes on the title. I would describe Emerald Fennel's style as "kinkier Tim Burton." But if you're looking for an alternate relationship drama from a woman director about two people

Let me start with a confession, I've never actually lived in Philadelphia. Unless you count the first few months after I was born (a home birth on Green Street, because Wendy Forman is a superhero). My parents moved to Bucks County, PA when I was a toddler and I grew up in the small village of Carversville, which looks like this: not Philadelphia. (photo by phillyburbs.com ) I did spend a day each week at my grandparents apartment in The Parkway House in Philadelphia though,

My friend Janet co-founded SF sketchfest in 2002, long before devices would try to autocorrect the word "sketchfest" into "sketchiest" no matter how many times you try to text it to someone. I've known Janet since we worked together at HuffPost Live in the mid 2010's and been wanting to come up to San Francicso for the comedy festival since then, but it never worked out for me calendar-wise until this year. And I'm so glad I finally got to attend a couple shows there and see